Foster, R. The therapeutic spirit of neoliberalism (2016) Political Theory, 44 (1), pp. 82-105. DOI: 10.1177/0090591715594660 Abstract My essay argues that neoliberal forms of government emerged through the shifting political trajectory of the therapeutic ethos in the postwar period in Anglo-American societies. In the postwar era, the therapeutic ethos attracted the attention of conservative cultural …
Ron Purser and Edwin Ng, Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype, Part One Huffington Post, March 22, 2016 Extract Michel Foucault made an astute observation: “You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked.” Hopefully, management science scholar-practitioners promoting corporate mindfulness …
Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Marx and Neoliberal Subjects, Theory, Culture and Society, February 16, 2015 Daniel Zamora’s edited volume Critiquer Foucault: Les années 1980 et la tentation néolibérale, published in November 2014, has been the subject of a heated debate recently on the philosophical blogosphere. Many Foucault scholars have been puzzled and surprised by the stir it has …
Davies, W. (2012), The Emerging Neocommunitarianism. The Political Quarterly, 83: 767–776. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2012.02354.x Full text on academia.edu Abstract The financial crisis which began in 2007 has been widely interpreted as a crisis of neoliberalism, akin to the crisis of Keynesianism of the 1970s. But there is little sign of a major paradigmatic alternative, either in theory …
Laurence McFalls & Mariella Pandolfi, Post-Liberalism, Academic Foresights, No. 5: July-September 2012 Update October 2025: There is something wrong with the formatting of this page but you can read the article if you highlight the page How do you analyze the present status of post-liberalism? Post-liberalism is the currently emergent historical formation that has both …
Dotan Leshem, The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault, Columbia University Press, 2016 Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer together and revealing the significant role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. He begins with early Christianity’s …
VII Jornadas Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea El neoliberalismo a debate: hacia una genealogía del presente 17 y 18 de noviembre de 2016 Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Campus Miguelete, Universidad Nacional de San Martín Presentación: ¿Cómo interpretar el neoliberalismo? Más allá de cualquier salida fácil que lo reduzca a una doctrina económica o …
William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism, Theory Culture and Society, 7 March 2014 The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become increasingly familiar over recent years. The term was relatively unheard-of until the 1990s, but was then adopted principally by the critics of a perceived free market orthodoxy, which was spreading around the world under the auspices …
Foucault, Political Life and History – Workshop 5 Friday April 22nd 2015 11.00 – 16.00 London School of Economics Room CLM.1.02 , first floor, Clement House, The Aldwych We are very happy to confirm the programme for the next workshop. [10:15 approx] Dr Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University) : “System-Cybernetic Governmentality: Depoliticisation of Scientific Governance During …
William Davies, From Jurisdiction to Translation: Elite Power Under Advanced Neoliberalism, Pre-print of article to appear in Theory Culture & Society Abstract The financial crisis, and associated scandals, created a sense of a juridical deficit with regard to the financial sector. Forms of independent judgement within the sector appeared compromised, while judgement over the sector …
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